Improvement in medical compounds for treatment of diseases of the lungs



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. SMITH, OF CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS FOR TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF THE LUNGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,392, dated August 13, 1872.

SPEGDEICATION.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. SMITH, of Concord, in the county of Cabarrus and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Medical Compound; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof. 7

The nature of my invention consists in a medical compound, called Smiths Lung Preserver, composed ofcertain ingredients, aswill be hereinafter more fully set forth, and which is specially designed as a remedy in all diseases of the lungs.

My compound is composed of the following ingredients, and in about the following proportions, namely: siXty-four parts Jamaica rum, or other equivalent spirits; eight parts tar; four parts extract ginger; eight parts extract Sassafras, and one part opium; two parts sugar. These ingredients are all well mixed and put into an air-tight vessel, which is then immersed in water. While so immersed it is boiled for about twenty minutes, more or less, and then taken out, after which the compound is thoroughly strained, when it is ready to be put into bottles for use.

I do not confine myself to the particular proportions of the ingredients as mentioned above, as they may, perhaps, be changed to WM. A. SMITH.

\Vitnesses:

W. J. MONTGOMERY, W. J. BLACK. 

